The Latest on the arrest of Istanbul nightclub gunman (all times local):
10:55 a.m.
Istanbul’s governor says that the New Year’s nightclub attack that killed 39 people was executed on behalf of the Islamic State group.
Vasip Sahin told reporters that „It is clear that this was carried out in the name of Daesh. “ He was using an Arabic acronym for the militant group.
Sahin also confirmed the identity of the suspected gunman, who is now in custody and being questioned, saying he is an Uzbekistan national who had trained in Afghanistan.
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10:45 a.m.
Istanbul’s governor says that the captured nightclub attack suspect is an Uzbekistan national who trained in Afghanistan.
Gov. Vasip Sahin says that the gunman who carried out the New Year’s attack is believed to have entered Turkey in January 2016.
Sahin says the suspect, captured late Monday, has confessed to carrying out the massacre, in which 39 people were killed. The governor says that the suspect’s fingerprints matched those of the attacker.
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10:35 a.m.
Turkey’s prime minister has confirmed that the gunman who carried out the deadly New Year’s attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been detained.
Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara on Tuesday that the man was being questioned by police and expressed hope that the interrogation would unveil the „forces“ behind the attack, which killed 39 people.
He wouldn’t provide further details on the arrest or the investigation, saying authorities would provide details „in time. “
Yildirim said that „the vile terrorist who attacked the place of entertainment on New Year’s eve and led to the loss of so many lives has been captured. “
He added: „What is important is for the suspect to be captured and for the power the forces behind it to be revealed. “
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8:55 a.m.
Turkish media reports say police in Istanbul have begun questioning a suspected Islamic State militant accused of killing 39 people during a New Year’s attack on an Istanbul nightclub.
The gunman, which media reports identified as Uzbekistan national Abdulgadir Masharipov, was caught late Monday in a police operation at a luxury residential complex in Istanbul. The state-run Anadolu Agency said a man from Kyrgyzstan and three women — from Somalia, Senegal and Egypt — were detained in the raid, while his 4-year old son was taken under protective custody.
Private NTV television said Masharipov was being questioned at Istanbul’s police headquarters on Tuesday.
Anadolu said police have also carried out raids on members of a suspected Uzbek IS cell in five Istanbul neighborhoods, and detained several people.

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ATLANTA (AP) – Scott Shepherd didn’t fire the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr., but the former Ku Klux Klansman says he has always felt remorse toward the family of the slain civil rights leader and all who honor his legacy.
He reached for atonement Monday evening, sitting on a dais next to Bernice King, who was 5 years old when James Earl Ray assassinated her father in 1968.
“I want to extend an apology to the King family and everyone out there,” Shepherd said, opening a discussion of race relations at the Atlanta center that bears the elder King’s name. “I, in my past, did a lot of terrible things. I said a lot of terrible things about Dr. King. I didn’t know what I was talking about.”
Bernice King, who admitted “hating white people” as a young woman, accepted Shepherd ’s apology. It was the pinnacle of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day that laid bare intense social tensions as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office Friday, yet also offered potential avenues to achieve King’s vision of a just society.
Trump did not publicly participate in any King observances. The holiday came amid the fallout from a public tiff between Trump and civil rights icon John Lewis, an exchange that incensed many African-Americans already leery of Trump after a racially charged campaign.
In New York, King Day observers cast establishment leaders as Klan successors. “When men no better than Klansmen dressed in suits are being sworn into office, we cannot be silent,” Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi said at a Brooklyn gathering.
Father Michael Plfeger, the man Bernice King invited to serve as keynote speaker at the Monday morning service at her father’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, sounded similar themes. He delivered a 45-minute indictment of the nation’s social and economic structure and warned it would get worse under Trump. “Plantations still exist,” Pfleger said. “And too often, white hoods have been replaced by three-piece suits in this country.”
For her part, Bernice King warned of a nation “dangerously polarized” along the lines of race and class. “We are headed to race riots if we’re not careful,” she said. “We can’t just keep this divisiveness going.”
She expressed concerns about Trump , who had met earlier in the day with her brother, Martin Luther King III.
After that private session at Trump Tower in New York, the younger King said Trump pledged to be an inclusive president even as he stands firm in his spat with Lewis. The Georgia congressman initially called Trump “illegitimate,” prompting the president-elect to declare on Twitter that Lewis, who was beaten during the civil rights movement, was “all talk” and “no action.”
Bernice King said Trump has demonstrated “what kind of man he is” and said any transformation is up to God. Changing the nation, she said, rests with people like Shepherd and Daryl Davis, a black musician and author who has made a second career out of befriending Klansmen and convincing them to renounce their racist views.
“When two enemies are talking, they aren’t fighting,” Davis said. “It’s when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence.”
Minutes earlier, he had unfurled a robe and held aloft the hood of a man he said was once an Imperial Wizard of the Klan, supervising multiple states until he met Davis and eventually abandoned his racist views.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination that Trump won, told the same crowd it’s not productive to focus on national leaders like Trump. “The problems we have in society today are right here in our own neighborhoods,” he said.
Kasich’s approach highlights some differences among those who touted King’s legacy.
Pfleger, a self-described radical priest from Chicago, said the United States must dismantle systems of oppression through collective political action. Another failed presidential candidate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, noted that King, beyond a racial justice advocate, was an economic radical who angered the political establishment.
If there was a shared conclusion Monday, it is perhaps that realizing King’s vision involves both personal conversion and collective actions, in neighborhoods and in the halls of power.
Kasich noted that national politicians, even with their limitations, control resources and react to grassroots leaders like King. Activist Chris Crass, who is white, explained that he reaches out not to avowed white supremacists, but to whites who don’t see themselves as part of the problem.
The idea, he said, isn’t to make them feel guilty, but to convince them that U. S. power brokers for generations have divided working-class whites against poor blacks as a means to maintain power. Understanding those “economic and political realities” would enable a new, powerful social and political coalition, he said.
As to whether that can occur under Trump , Davis, the man who befriends and converts Klansman, said he’s optimistic. Trump , he said, “has brought all this out,” regardless of whether he intended to do so. Davis said many Americans assumed – or convinced themselves – that bigotry was over with Barack Obama’s election as the first black president.
“We have been in denial about racism in this country,” Davis said, “and you cannot address what you cannot see.”
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BEIJING (AP) — K. S. Narendran never boards a flight without feeling terror. And he doesn’t expect that to change without answers to what happened to the plane carrying his wife three years ago.
His wife, Chandrika Sharma, was one of the 239 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared over the Indian Ocean after veering far off course on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. After a fruitless search, the governments of Australia, China and Malaysia announced Tuesday that they were suspending their efforts.
Some relatives of Flight 370’s passengers expressed anger, disappointment and a resolve to press authorities to resume their efforts and find out exactly what happened. Others said they understood that the search — the most expensive of its kind in aviation history — had to come to an end.
“There’s not a day that passes without spending significant amount of time thinking about what the state of the search might be,” Narendran said Tuesday in a phone interview. “While it’s probable that we’ll never see our family members again, it doesn’t take away the fact that we would still like to know what happened.”
Li Xinmao, whose daughter and son-in-law were on the plane, called Tuesday’s announcement “unacceptable” and the governments of Malaysia and China “irresponsible.” Nearly two-thirds of the people aboard Flight 370 were Chinese.
“No matter how much we protested, they wouldn’t take our complaints, and it has become useless for us to protest,” Li said. “Even so, I will continue to protest because I just can’t accept the result.”
Search crews spent nearly three years trawling a 120,000-square kilometer (46,000-square mile) area where the plane was believed to have gone down, an effort that cost an estimated $160 million. They did not find the main underwater wreckage, the black box data recorder, or any sign of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard the aircraft.
A team of international investigators said in December that the plane may have fallen in a different area based on where more than 20 items of debris have since washed ashore. But Australia’s transport minister said the new analysis did “not give a specific location of the missing aircraft,” and expanding the search based on that finding would be unlikely.
Narendran said he thought Australian officials wanted to “bury the search” rather than suspend it. A group representing victims’ families, Voice370, said extending the search was “an inescapable duty owed to the flying public.”
Nan Jinyan, whose brother’s fiancee was killed, was more resigned.
“It has become a fact that the missing plane can’t be found, maybe forever,” Nan said. “We have no way but to accept it.”
Jeanette Maguire, who lost her Australian sister and brother-in-law, said she and others knew rescue efforts were too expensive to continue indefinitely.
“We were hoping and praying that wouldn’t be it and we would have found something of significance for them to be able to keep searching,” Maguire said.
But for many others, finding closure remains impossible.
Lee Khim Fatt’s wife, Foong Wai Yueng, was a stewardess on Flight 370. Three years later, Lee still hasn’t held a memorial for his wife or touched her wardrobe or belongings in their home in Malaysia.
“I told my children to keep praying,” Lee said. “As long as nothing is found, nothing is proven.”
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Associated Press writers Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia; Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and news researcher Yu Bing in Beijing contributed to this report.
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